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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
(2006 – present)

Jenks Miller’s psychedelic metal /drone/sludge project, Horseback, produced an avant-garde sleeper-hit with 2007’s Impale Golden Horn. That record, which Aquarius Records described as “the best drone record of the year” upon its release, boasted four lengthy tracks, each one a vibrant and kaleidoscopic journey toward a manic, inevitable nirvana. More melodic and accessible than most noise records and noisier than most dream-pop records, Horseback’s debut carved itself a niche somewhere between Merzbow and Stars of the Lid, offering a refreshing sound to fans across many sub-genres of psychedelic music.

Horseback began its story in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States in 2006.

Horseback toured in the fall of 2007, including a stop at the fourth-annual Arthur Magazine-curated Million Tongues Festival in Chicago.

Horseback’s next full-length, The Invisible Mountain, was released by Milwaukee’s Utech Records (Locrian, Aluk Todolo, Mamiffer) in 2009 to underground acclaim; it was then released on vinyl by the United Kingdom occult label Aurora Borealis in 2010 before being picked up by heavy-music powerhouse Relapse Records, who distributed the record around the world. Carried forward once again by Relapse’s greater visibility, The Invisible Mountain scored spots on many year-end lists (including Stereogum, Decibel, BrooklynVegan, Verbicide, All Music Guide, and OMG Vinyl).

After the success of The Invisible Mountain, Horseback produced a number of splits with genre-defying shape-shifters like Voltigeurs, Locrian, and Pyramids, and Forbidden Planet a limited black-noise cassette full-length on Brave Mysteries.

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@zaruyache Have you listened to the debut album? Because he didn't start out metal. Maybe like half dude's catalog as Horseback could even be classified as metal. And the new album still has a bunch of black metal vocals and guitar on the last track. I don't think he's really doing anything different with this project now than ever before. Which is just, basically, whatever the hell he wants.

this subject about M-A is ancient as fuck, can't believe you people still get bothered whether an artist is or is not included on some internet database. would it really put your souls at ease if it had its own page there? sheesh

@MichaelSnoxall, fuck those dudes at MA, seriously. There are so many examples of their shitty, euro-centric elitism keeping bands out of their "archives". Vali and Of the Wand & the Moon have profiles but artists like Horseback, Wreck and Reference, Between the Buried and Me, get shafted because they're too hip or whatever, despite being overtly metal. Fuck em.

so um...i think i don't really like the new album much. it has some nice moments, but they're too sparse. it kinda makes me think of a really mediocre Circle release, even the vocals sound similar to Janne Westerlund's